Design from Ibstock

DESIGN from IBSTOCK BRICK
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DESIGN from IBSTOCK BRICK
4 Autumn 2017 – Ibstock Update
6 Architecture PLB’s Design Centre anchors the historic campus of Merchant Taylors’ School in Hertfordshire
14 Kate Gould Gardens’ award-winning ‘City Living’ exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show is seen as a prototype
20 A rich collage of brick forms reflects the mix of uses at AHMM’s Upper Richmond Road development
28 TheTercentenary Chapel and Cloister has been completed at Larkhill,Wiltshire, by John Simpson Architects
36 Artist Alex Chinneck employs Ibstock bricks in his large- scale installation Six Pins and Half a Dozen Needles
42 Ibstock’s Chailey factory specialises in clamp-fired bricks
46 Ages of Brick
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IBSTOCK’S PROSPECTS AT THE BRICK AWARDS
Ibstock Brick is in the running in many of the categories in the 2017 BDA Brick Awards. The jury, which includes architects Joe Morris and Alex Ely, has announced its shortlist from a record entry in excess of 300. The awards ceremony will be held on 9th November at The Hilton on London’s Park Lane.
SPLITFACED FACADE Forticrete's concrete masonry blocks in a Splitfaced finish feature in architect Nimtim’s extension to a ground-floor flat in Herne Hill, south London. A limited budget meant a focus on creating large, flexible spaces using simple but characterful materials. The external walls are formed of a splitfaced concrete block which becomes smooth and fairfaced as it moves inside. The new rear elevation is simple and confident with a wrapping picture window.
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BBeellooww "Materially, the palette was driven by a very tight budget and a brief to be bold and playful.To add a newmodern layer to the traditional architecture of the property, we specified Forticrete’s Splitfaced architectural masonry in ivory – an extremely cost- effective alternative to natural hewn stone.The blocks highlight the new addition yet reference the texture in the original London Stocks”, say Nimi Attanayake andTim O'Callaghan of Nimtim.
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Elegant brickwork anchors the new Design Centre to the historic campus of Merchant Taylors’ School. Designed by Architecture PLB, the building is detailed so as to provide a constructive learning tool in its own right.
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Merchant Taylors’ School appointed Architecture PLB to design a new Design Centre on its campus at Northwood, Hertfordshire, following an invited RIBA competition. The building, which provides state of the art facilities for the independent school’s design department, was configured to respect its sensitive setting within the historic school and surrounding green belt landscape. Architecture PLB’s solution placed the building in a prominent location, terminating an existing formal avenue and helping to bridge a perceived divide between two halves of the campus.
The brick selection and detailing were important in ensuring that the new Design Centre sat comfortably alongside the adjacent grade-two- listed 1930s school buildings. These are constructed of a two-inch handmade red brick laid in a variant English garden wall bond with areas of recessed coursing and rustication. While the form of the new building is of the present, the new brick was selected to reflect this setting and historical context. A number of alternatives were reviewed and sample panels constructed to identify a good match. The selected brick, a 50mm Chailey Stock from Ibstock, is detailed to echo the original building with the same bond, soldier coursing and recesses. A rusticated niche houses the relocated founder’s statue in pride of place at the end of the avenue.
While the brickwork is a vital element in setting the building within its context, its use and application also assists the reading of the architectural composition. Conceived as two wings of teaching accommodation with a glazed linking element, the brickwork continues internally,
through the centre of the building, to express the blocks to either side. To the east of the central circulation zone, the brickwork opens up to form an arcaded gallery, providing display space and visual connections from the first-floor art rooms. To the west, the openings into the main technology workshops are smaller to limit sound breakout. This allows glimpses of activity within as well as large areas of wall for displaying larger projects, an opportunity that has been readily embraced by the department.
The design of the building also allows it to act as an educational tool, expressing its construction and demonstrating different materials and techniques to the students. Wherever possible, materiality and construction methods are exposed. Internal brickwork is complemented by the workshop’s structure of cross-laminated timber walls and roof slabs, offering a robust finish as well as warmth and colour. This structure is supported by glulam timber and galvanised steel bowstring trusses mounted on galvanised steel columns. Other finishes – exposed reinforced concrete slabs, polished screed floors, birch ply shelving, aluminium checkerplate and expanded aluminium mesh – were all selected to be robust and self-finished to express their materiality. The building’s materials were also selected in response to a wide-ranging sustainability audit that was carried out at an early stage. As well as being appropriate to the surrounding buildings, the brick was chosen for its longevity, providing a high-quality, low-maintenance building that will contribute to the school environment for decades to come.
LLeefftt A statue of the school’s founder has been relocated to a specially- designed brick niche, protected from the elements, that occupies a prime axial location on the campus.
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“City Living’, designed by Kate Gould Gardens, won awards at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.The multi-level installation, which featured materials ranging from light- transmitting concrete to glazed bricks, demonstrates how compact green spaces can be added to existing urban apartment buildings
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LLeefftt The 2017 Chelsea Flower Show, highlight of the horticultural year, saw the inclusion of bricks by Ibstock as part of the project by Kate Gould Gardens.The concept, entitled ‘City Living’, showcased a striking contemporary garden on three levels, seeking to transform what can be forbidding spaces around typical urban apartment blocks.
The spaces include planting and water features.As part of the design, Ibstock supplied 15 square metres of white Umbra Sawtooth Glazed bricks, together with white glazed brick slips, which add a sleek, modern background to this prototype urban landscape. Used on the lower level of the three- storey structure as part of the wall detailing, they provide a backdrop for the garden’s water feature. The white glazed bricks form part of Ibstock’s extensive colour palette for ceramic glazed finishes, offering unique and memorable solutions that help bring design vision to life.
‘City Living’, designed by Kate Gould Gardens, won not only a gold medal but also best in category award at the 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The installation comprised a contemporary garden on several levels, as if in a typical urban apartment block. ‘While these dwellings can be cold and slightly forbidding in appearance’, says Kate Gould, ‘they could easily be transformed with the addition of attractive green outdoor spaces for residents use, with comfortable and sheltered seating areas surrounded by appealing planting and tranquil water features’. The garden could be added to existing buildings or incorporated into new builds to ‘green up’ city spaces and provide valuable habitat for wildlife and birds.
The garden is set on three levels with a mezzanine floor and is positioned directly adjacent to the dwellings, making use of the space beneath and alongside the building to provide an interesting and ‘green’ route to and from resident’s homes. A stairwell, clad with back-lit terrazzo, features cantilevered steps and a perforated metal screen to provide structural stability while allowing light to filter down to the lower levels. This ensures each level can be effectively gardened and utilised for recreation. Green walls and a water feature add a sense of tranquillity and movement.
The hard landscaping included bamboo decking from Loknan, glazed Sawtooth bricks from Ibstock, decorative tiles and handmade back-lit terrazzo. Two giant Anglepoise lamps lit the garden at sunset while solid teak stools by Mark Gabbertas served as seating on the mezzanine.
The idea of greening city spaces is one that Gould has explored before at the RHS Chelsea Flower Shows in 2009 and 2013, receiving gold medals on both occasions. Her 2013 show garden ‘The Wasteland’ transformed an abandoned industrial site into a public garden, reusing the old structures and waste materials found within.
Gould was keen to include light transmitting materials as part of the hard landscaping. Given the need for the garden to be self-funded, and after watching some Youtube videos on making light transmitting concrete, the team experimented with playdough, modelling clay, optical fibres and a bag of rapid-drying cement. Natural stone supplier Diespeker was contacted,
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and using the provided mould, generated a sample using its own bespoke terrazzo mix (a light grey background mix with 3-5mm Bardiglio marble chippings) with hundreds of fibre optic filaments stuck into the clay. The key was to avoid knocking the filaments out of place. The clay bottom layer was then removed and the sample ground and polished.
The team at Kate Gould Gardens cut 3.8 miles of fibre optic cable of various thicknesses into more than 81,000 pieces. The different sized fibres were then weighed and divided by the number of trays to ensure an even spread in each panel. The team enlisted friends and family to fix the fibres into polystyrene bases inside the bespoke aluminium trays for delivery to Diespeker.
Stepping forms and articulated brick facades belie the scale and density of this stylish residential project by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris in London’s Putney.
Streetscape Cascade
With its mix of new homes, modern office space and active retail frontages, Upper Richmond Road improves the streetscape and enlivens the heart of London’s SW15 to provide a catalyst for urban regeneration in the area.
Composed of a cascading series of dovetailing volumes containing residential accommodation above retail and commercial opportunities, the two blocks are connected via a six-storey link block. Together the two schemes provide 113 mostly double-aspect apartments and an array of balconies, winter gardens and terraces.
The building’s stepped, dovetailing design language is expressed coherently at multiple scales, from the overall massing through to the relief brick texture.
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The Upper Richmond Road development is located in the East Putney Ward of Wandsworth, on the south side of the River Thames and takes full advantage of views both towards Richmond and back towards the city.
Brick was chosen as a cladding material for the project not only for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its longevity, its incombustibility and its low- maintenance. With a focus on creating a new public and private open space, the retail and commercial ‘podium’ of the scheme creates substantial recesses and folds along the street which generate a new and inviting public space with a private courtyard on the rear of the site.
The accommodation massing above is oriented north-south, providing optimum daylight, whilst presenting an elegantly proportioned facade to the street. The top of the two blocks is refined to achieve a stepped profile, along both the width and the length of the blocks, creating a cascading arrangement of terrace spaces facing south, with an inherent privacy to the spaces for residents within the development.
The residential entrance is highlighted from the street through the use of a vibrant glazed brick which distinguishes it from the commercial entrances. Design work on the £27.5m project commenced in July 2011 with two construction phases spanning July 2013 to August 2016 and a staggered occupation of residential units.
LLeefftt The project comprises a reinforced concrete frame with flat-slab at high level and beam-and-slab for the commercial floors.The facades are clad in brick and punctuated by protruding brick-clad winter gardens and balconies. The 12- storey development provides 130,000 square feet of residential space above 35,000 square feet of commercial space.The basement contains plant and a car park to serve the residential.
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TheTercentenary Chapel and Cloister has been built for the Royal Regiment of Artillery at Larkhill Garrison Church in Wiltshire.The design, by John Simpson Architects, features a memorial wall that required brickwork of an exemplary standard.
Wall of Memories
The Tercentenary Chapel and Cloister at the Regimental Church at Larkhill, Wiltshire, have been built to mark the 300th anniversary of the formation of The Royal Regiment of Artillery. Designed by John Simpson Architects, the ensemble provides a memorial wall aligned with the southern flank of the existing church.
The idea to build a memorial wall, based on that at the former St George’s Garrison Church at Woolwich (1863), came from General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman, Master Gunner (of) St James’s Park, ceremonial head of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. It was to display the large number of brass and stone commemorative plaques that had been left abandoned at Larkhill since the Second World War.
The architect of the Woolwich church was the renowned Thomas Wyatt, who based his design on his earlier Wilton Parish Church, near Salisbury (1843). The Woolwich church had acquired some 300 regimental memorials when, in July 1944, it was largely destroyed by a flying bomb. It was made safe in the 1950s but has remained in a semi-derelict state ever since, though it houses the Victoria Cross Memorial to the regiment’s 62 holders as well as 120 of the original memorial plaques. Despite its condition, it remains of considerable heritage interest and spiritual significance to the regiment. Plans were drawn up to restore and conserve the altar end of the Woolwich church, a project now well underway, and to find a setting for the 120 brass and stone memorial plaques that had been left unprotected for 70 years.
LLeefftt Thomas HenryWyatt’s St Mary & St Nicholas' Parish Church,Wilton, which still stands, and St George’s Garrison Church, Woolwich, which was largely destroyed by a flying bomb in 1944.The surviving wall (bottom) provided a model for the new memorial wall at Larkhill Garrison Church.
The grade-one-listed Church of St Mary and St Nicholas was completed in 1844 byWyatt in the Romanesque style with a 32-metre campanile.The materials included marble columns from Italy and medieval stained glass from France.
Hence the idea of building a replica of the surviving Woolwich wall alongside the existing Larkhill Church. The wall was intended to accommodate many of the restored plaques and a record of the VC awardees. John Simpson Architects designed the wall, terminating in a small chapel to house the VC Memorial, all inspired and echoing the style used by Wyatt.
The success of the venture relied heavily on the selection of bricks, which needed to be a faithful representation of the surviving wall at Woolwich. Following site visits to Larkhill and Woolwich, Ibstock provided the client and architect with a selection of suitable samples, and Ibstock Staffordshire Blue Brindled Dragface and an Ibstock Berkshire Orange Stock were chosen to form the base and the body of the wall. Along the top is a chequered string course which introduces a blue brick alongside a yellow Ibstock Southwark Multi Stock. This unusual arrangement echoes Wyatt’s clever reflection of the regimental colours of dark blue and dark red. The challenge…

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